General Conference Bulletin, vol. 4

EFFECTS OF SMALL SCHOOLS

The effects of following the present policy in the school work have been manifold. While the attendance of Battle Creek College as a training-school has been necessarily reduced, the-enrollment for the present year being 365, only such students as are prepared for a training being admitted, the establishment of industrial schools has increased very materially the total number of students who are receiving Christian training. Wisconsin, for instance, formerly sent less than fifty students to the college, but she sends nearly one hundred and fifty to the industrial school, besides having two hundred and fifty children in her church schools. GCB April 2, 1901, page 16.6

The ultimate result of the church and industrial schools will be a large number of college students whose early education has laid a firm foundation, and who, with a brief training, will become efficient workers. The work of these schools is most essential at this time. There are but two sources from which we may gain workers in the future: either the children born into the church must be educated, or we must depend entirely upon the world at large to furnish the material for the laborers who will carry the closing message. GCB April 2, 1901, page 16.7